Deploy and Host Laravel + Clanker Support on Railway

A Laravel 12 starter with the Clanker Support support agent built in — visitors get streaming answers from your knowledge base, can escalate to a human, and every conversation lands in your team inbox.

About Hosting Laravel + Clanker Support

This template deploys the official Laravel 12 skeleton served by php artisan serve, with SQLite storage and migrations applied automatically on every deploy. The @clankerSupport Blade directive from clankersupport/clankersupport-php renders the support-agent widget on every page. Configuration is one variable: your project's public widget key.

Why Deploy Laravel + Clanker Support on Railway?

One click gives you a running Laravel app with an AI-powered support agent already answering from your knowledge base — no JavaScript build step, no webhook wiring. Railway handles the build (Nixpacks), migrations run on deploy, and you can point the widget at the hosted Clanker Support service or your own self-hosted deployment (theopenco/llmchat).

Common Use Cases

• Add an AI-powered support agent with human escalation to a new Laravel product
• A starting point for docs, marketing, or app pages that need built-in support
• Evaluate Clanker Support on a real PHP stack before wiring it into production

Dependencies for Laravel + Clanker Support Hosting

• A Clanker Support project key — free from the dashboard (your project → Embed), or from your own self-hosted instance

Deployment Dependencies

• Laravel 12 (official skeleton, PHP 8.2+)
• clankersupport/clankersupport-php (Composer, installed during build)
• SQLite (bundled; migrations run via the template's start command)

Template source: theopenco/clankersupport-templates